I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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